A Suffolk County police sergeant accused of "targeting" Latinos in traffic stops and stealing cash from them is facing official misconduct and petty larceny charges. Sixth Precinct Sgt. Scott A. Greene was arrested during a sting operation

More frequently they can be found in pursuit of cash and other property that can be seized through “asset forfeiture.” Law enforcement agencies have found this practice to be very lucrative in sparsely populated northern Idaho.

Those taken into custody by police in the United States of America confront a substantial risk of being tortured by their captors. Police who commit such crimes face a negligible risk of significant punishment.

A video below shows a completely restrained inmate getting pepper sprayed in the face by Rutherford County Deputy Sheriff Vanderveer. Vanderveer claims the inmate was being combative. However, the video does not warrant those claims.

Paul Misukewicz, Gregory’s attorney, told WXYZ that the officer then did something bizarre, “[Najor] took it upon herself to get the scissors. And for whatever reason, decided that she was going to butcher my client.”

District of Columbia police say an officer who worked in evidence control was arrested for theft. Police Chief Cathy Lanier appeared at a DC Council hearing to discuss recent high-profile arrests of several officers, including on charges of child por

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who ran on a pledge to reform the police department's aggressive use of stop-and-frisk practices, reached a deal with a civil liberties group on Thursday to end the long legal fight.

We previously discussed the horrific case out of New Mexico involving David Eckert involving a series of demeaning and invasive cavity searches of an innocent man stopped along a road. That abuse cost the city and county $1.8 million

According a Dallas Police Department statement obtained by WFAA, Ofc. La’Cori Johnson stopped the woman on Larga Dr. in September and told her that she could have sex with him to avoid being taken to jail for an outstanding warrant.
“He then took

While visiting the elite Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, “I head discussion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the National Guard to act as a local police force,” reported Robert D. Kaplan in his 1996 book An Empire Wilder

Though he is adored as a minor deity in the degenerate world of pop culture, when confronted by a member of the State’s punitive priesthood Justin Bieber is just another Mundane. This explains how the alleged singer has found himself charged with

The Pomona, California police officers who beat Arreola in front of his wife told the terrified woman that they would make sure that the victim lost his job. That sadistic prediction was fulfilled within a day, after which Arreola discovered that hi

“What they decided … was that Officer Randall Kerrick did his job,” summarized his attorney, George Laughrun, after a grand jury in North Carolina refused to indict Kerrick for manslaughter in the death of Jonathan Ferrell. “Regretfully, it cost the

The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, reported on recent secret joint training missions between U.S. Army special forces and the Richland County (South Carolina) Sheriff’s Department.
The article describes training exercises being condu

Once the Court establishes the [stop] is “slight,” it asserts without explanation that the balance “weighs” in favor of the state. The [majority] ignores we have required the Government to prove that it had reasonable suspicion for a minimally intrus

Exponent photo editor Michael Takeda, a junior in the College of Technology, was slammed to the ground by the Purdue Police after being found in the Electrical Engineering Building taking photos. The area had not been closed off to the public

Last week, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s use of racial and ethnic profiling cost Maricopa County at least $22 million to monitor and re-train those in the county’s employ.
This week, Sheriff Arpaio announced that he is punishing 38 unpatriotic inma

“What they decided … was that Officer Randall Kerrick did his job,” summarized his attorney, George Laughrun, after a grand jury in North Carolina refused to indict Kerrick for manslaughter in the death of Jonathan Ferrell. “Regretfully, it cost the

Prosecutors declined to charge an Ohio State Patrol trooper with a history of domestic violence who admitted to a sexual encounter with a boy. State trooper Ricky Vitte Jr. told his wife he had watched a pornographic video and masturbated

An Arizona deputy shot and killed a man claiming he was reaching for a gun, but a cell phone video shows the man had raised his hands in the air. However, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu insists the man should have been killed much earlier because he

“See – this is what happens when you don't cooperate with the police!” snarled Neil Uhrig as he pinned Melissa Miller to the floor of her home. It's not clear whether Officer Uhrig was expressing satisfaction at the expense of the traumatized woman,

Do whatever the cop says or else face arrest. As I’ve said in the past, the days of “protecting and serving” are long gone, replaced with an out of control Police force that seems hell bent on using as much force as possible, as we’ve seen many times

Editor’s Note: The following is a selection from a speech by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist at the Southwest Regional Mises Circle in Houston, “The Police State: Know It When You See It,” on January 18, 2014.